Pulling up stakes is always hard to do, especially if you’re packing up and moving a million plus documents, photographs, films, engineering drawings, tech manuals, and all the other treasures that make up the National Air and Space Museum's Archives Division. Starting in May, some of our reference and reproduction services will be suspended as we get ready for the move to our great new facilities at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center Phase Two. Right now, these are the affected services and the dates on which they’ll be suspended:
- May 1, 2010 – Photo orders; film and video requests.
- August 1 – Reproductions of microfilm, drawings, and technical manuals; Photocopies of collections material; Donations to the Archives Division collections.
- September 1 – Research appointments at the Paul E. Garber Facility Reading Room in Suitland, Maryland.
We’ll continue to field permission and reference requests, but there may be delays in responding – we’re going to be rather busy. Oh, yes - the Archives and Library reading room in the National Mall building will still be open for research by appointment during the move period. Watch the Archives Division’s web page for late-breaking bulletins about the move, and please contact us with any questions about Archives services as the process unfolds.
